Decoration: A,B: ODYSSEUS UNDER RAM ESCAPING FROM THE CAVE OF POLYPHEMOS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 2148
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: J26
Publication Record: Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 84, FIGS.17A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 10, 44, BEILAGE 7.3, PL.(2747) 26.1-5 View Whole CVA Plates Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 137, FIG.19.7 (PARTS OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF LIP CUP. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: A, LIP: ODYSSEUS ON THE RAM: A GREEK UNDER THE RAM'S BELLY. B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: LIP: ABOVE THE RAM, FOLLOWING ITS BACK: ϙεσδεσπεσεσχεσ. HANDLE
ZONE: εϙεϙνσεσ(τ),(1) FOLLOWED BY A VACAT OF 1 1/2 SPACES AND: εσεσγεσ. B: LIP:
ABOVE THE SCENE: ϙεα(σ)δεσεσχεσπε (COMPLETE){2}. HANDLE ZONE:
χε̣[..]ασπεσεσεσ̣[....]ϙεσευχ{3}. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: A FOUR-STROKE ASTERISK,
WITH TWO STROKES LENGTHENED TOWARD THE BOTTOM (FACS., CVA, P. 44).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE LAST LETTER READ AS IONIC GAMMA BY FELLMANN, BUT IT IS PROBABLY A
MISWRITTEN TAU. {2} A NONSENSE INSCRIPTION (AS ARE ALL THE OTHERS), SINCE KOPPA
BEFORE AN E-SOUND IS INAPPROPRIATE. HOWEVER, THE FIRST NINE LETTERS RESEMBLE A
PROPER NAME. {3} IF THIS INSCRIPTION IS SIMILAR TO THAT ON A, THE LARGER MISSING
PART SHOULD INCLUDE A VACAT.
